Poppycock, complete and utter. Just today I was reading in the newspaper (The Herald) about a parent who had been shocked by the primal behaviour of other parents at his/her daughter's sports day. Sports day is alive and well; playground kickabouts have not been banned; exams still get marked with a potential 'fail' grade. Do not adjust your television sets, but please upgrade your newspaper as it's feeding you shit.
It's almost like you've never seen a Slashdot "discussion" before... Mention.NET and you'll get scathing remarks; mention BASIC and you'll get laughed at; mention Java and put up with taunts about how slow it is; mention C and watch as another buffer-overflow thread instantly materialises; mention perl and there's an immediate response about clarity of code; mention Python and someone suggests you try Ruby; mention PHP and someone wants you to switch to Ruby on Rails.
You just gotta go with it. It's not gonna change --- and why should it? They all do the same, but there's always another one somewhere else which does it *slightly easier*...
It would appear the only languages worth knowing around here are the ones so obscure or esoteric that no-one says anything about them. I do all my application development in brainfuck!;)
At the risk of running off at a big tangent here, I think most of Waits' stuff is really great, but I just think of it as belonging to two different artists, with the divide somewhere around the entry of his wife onto the scene. The difference between Burma Shave and Kommenizuspadt is large, but they're still obviously our Tom...
I've never had a chance to see him live though; I just hope his hard-livin' youth doesn't catch up with him before I do:)
Using HTML as an example is completely disingenuous. The whole idea is that it can look different. If Lynx starts to look like Firefox (or the other way round...) we know there's something really wrong. It's a markup language: an encoded form of layout suggestions only. If you'd used a binary format like JPEG you would have a far better comparison.
Yeah, Word and Excel have both added new features that older versions ignore, but that's not the same thing.
Why is it not the same? People will still send you documents with new 'features' from the latest version of Word, etc., and will expect you to be able to open them (and even print them) with no loss in function or discernible difference in output.
Even if the way in which the basic text, typeface, image, field data hasn't been updated in a few years this doesn't mean everything is accessible.
Probably, but it may well be worthwhile paying off the loss in performance for greater ease and speed of development. They didn't have to write the kernel from scratch; though no doubt there have been some significant modifications.
And what use is the creation of knowledge if it's then locked up?
How can you publish your work with the proviso, "you can't see the software, but I promise it works"? How can your work be peer-reviewed if it's closed?
I always thought this was the case. What is the point of enforcing something, if you let the person carry on with the illegal activity at the same time?
Yeah, but you should be able to turn off the CSS and have a perfectly usable site. After all, it's possible to do things with CSS which make websites unusable for everyone, but that doesn't mean use of CSS is necessarily bad.
How is it possible for so many sites to be like this? I have designed a fair number of websites but I really don't know how I'd go about making it difficult for Firefox users (not that I'd ever want to). Surely it's easier to just follow the standards? After all, there are whole shelves of books and online tutorials telling people how to follow them; there aren't many books with titles like "Creating Non-Standard Websites" or "How to Create Inaccessible Sites". It seems this 10% of sites must have been trying extra hard to break on non-IE browsers.
Indeed, I second JabRef. And because it's Java you can easily recommend it to anyone who uses bibtex files regardless of their operating system. The moderators don't seem to agree with you at the moment, though:(
Which was my point exactly! Windows is much more than an OS; in fact, analogous to a distribution. Except that a whole bunch of the stuff in the distro can't be removed or replaced without causing a large amount of damage.
But if MS will claim to produce an operating system, maybe it should be limited to *just* an operating system. Most of what they provide is frills, and second-rate at that. I think it would be better for everyone if, for example, OEMs were at liberty to supply what their customers wanted not what MS deemed them to want. After all, there's no sensible reason why brand of browser should be dictated by operating system any more than brand of word processor.
As far as I'm concerned, OS == kernel. If you were to take a CS course in operating systems, or read a textbook on OS design, you sure as hell wouldn't find any mention of media players or HTML rendering engines.
That would be difficult without power. Unless, by "instant messenging", you mean you write down a message and a hamster instantly runs along the hall with it to its destination. Hmm, I might be on to something.
If the copyright owners take umbrage, it's their responsibility to do something about it. After all, if you don't own the copyright on something, how do you know it's illegal sharing?
That doesn't really explain his point though, what left or right-wing has to do with personal responsibility.
... a lot of right-wing writers, politicians, and spokes-people, who are generally known for elevating the importance of taking responsibility for your own actions.
That's odd, because I've never heard any left-wing commentators denigrating the importance of taking responsibility for one's own actions. If anything, that's an anomic viewpoint - if such a thing can be said to exist. I don't think any philosophy or political theory could be taken seriously if its followers took no heed of responsibility or the effects of their actions.
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Poppycock, complete and utter. Just today I was reading in the newspaper (The Herald) about a parent who had been shocked by the primal behaviour of other parents at his/her daughter's sports day. Sports day is alive and well; playground kickabouts have not been banned; exams still get marked with a potential 'fail' grade. Do not adjust your television sets, but please upgrade your newspaper as it's feeding you shit.
It's almost like you've never seen a Slashdot "discussion" before... Mention .NET and you'll get scathing remarks; mention BASIC and you'll get laughed at; mention Java and put up with taunts about how slow it is; mention C and watch as another buffer-overflow thread instantly materialises; mention perl and there's an immediate response about clarity of code; mention Python and someone suggests you try Ruby; mention PHP and someone wants you to switch to Ruby on Rails.
;)
You just gotta go with it. It's not gonna change --- and why should it? They all do the same, but there's always another one somewhere else which does it *slightly easier*...
It would appear the only languages worth knowing around here are the ones so obscure or esoteric that no-one says anything about them. I do all my application development in brainfuck!
At the risk of running off at a big tangent here, I think most of Waits' stuff is really great, but I just think of it as belonging to two different artists, with the divide somewhere around the entry of his wife onto the scene. The difference between Burma Shave and Kommenizuspadt is large, but they're still obviously our Tom...
:)
I've never had a chance to see him live though; I just hope his hard-livin' youth doesn't catch up with him before I do
That is such a beautiful song... I'm gonna have to put on the album now. Excuse me one moment. It always brings a tear to my eye.
Jesus, since when has outsourcing == offshoring (even assuming the OP is in the US in the first place)?
Talk about missing the point:
There is no reason why step 3 has to be the case, apart from Microsoft's obstinacy.
Using HTML as an example is completely disingenuous. The whole idea is that it can look different. If Lynx starts to look like Firefox (or the other way round...) we know there's something really wrong. It's a markup language: an encoded form of layout suggestions only. If you'd used a binary format like JPEG you would have a far better comparison.
Why is it not the same? People will still send you documents with new 'features' from the latest version of Word, etc., and will expect you to be able to open them (and even print them) with no loss in function or discernible difference in output.
Even if the way in which the basic text, typeface, image, field data hasn't been updated in a few years this doesn't mean everything is accessible.
Probably, but it may well be worthwhile paying off the loss in performance for greater ease and speed of development. They didn't have to write the kernel from scratch; though no doubt there have been some significant modifications.
That's horrific: you managed to get both annoying mis-spellings within two words of each other!
And what use is the creation of knowledge if it's then locked up?
How can you publish your work with the proviso, "you can't see the software, but I promise it works"? How can your work be peer-reviewed if it's closed?
I always thought this was the case. What is the point of enforcing something, if you let the person carry on with the illegal activity at the same time?
I shall rest easy in my bed knowing DoubleClick are finding it difficult to make ends meet.
Yeah, but you should be able to turn off the CSS and have a perfectly usable site. After all, it's possible to do things with CSS which make websites unusable for everyone, but that doesn't mean use of CSS is necessarily bad.
How is it possible for so many sites to be like this? I have designed a fair number of websites but I really don't know how I'd go about making it difficult for Firefox users (not that I'd ever want to). Surely it's easier to just follow the standards? After all, there are whole shelves of books and online tutorials telling people how to follow them; there aren't many books with titles like "Creating Non-Standard Websites" or "How to Create Inaccessible Sites". It seems this 10% of sites must have been trying extra hard to break on non-IE browsers.
Indeed, I second JabRef. And because it's Java you can easily recommend it to anyone who uses bibtex files regardless of their operating system. The moderators don't seem to agree with you at the moment, though :(
Which was my point exactly! Windows is much more than an OS; in fact, analogous to a distribution. Except that a whole bunch of the stuff in the distro can't be removed or replaced without causing a large amount of damage.
But if MS will claim to produce an operating system, maybe it should be limited to *just* an operating system. Most of what they provide is frills, and second-rate at that. I think it would be better for everyone if, for example, OEMs were at liberty to supply what their customers wanted not what MS deemed them to want. After all, there's no sensible reason why brand of browser should be dictated by operating system any more than brand of word processor.
As far as I'm concerned, OS == kernel. If you were to take a CS course in operating systems, or read a textbook on OS design, you sure as hell wouldn't find any mention of media players or HTML rendering engines.
I wonder when the next big thing in computer science is going to come along. (Random musings...)
That would be difficult without power. Unless, by "instant messenging", you mean you write down a message and a hamster instantly runs along the hall with it to its destination. Hmm, I might be on to something.
Yep, but it does nothing to help when you roll over in a strange bed the next morning and you're lying next to a -1, Troll :)
If the copyright owners take umbrage, it's their responsibility to do something about it. After all, if you don't own the copyright on something, how do you know it's illegal sharing?
But what VM does the Java VM run on then?!?!??? (And don't tell me it's turtles all the way down!)
You mean Gentoo users? :)
(I'm one myself, but there's nothing wrong with a bit of self-deprecatory humour.)
That doesn't really explain his point though, what left or right-wing has to do with personal responsibility.
That's odd, because I've never heard any left-wing commentators denigrating the importance of taking responsibility for one's own actions. If anything, that's an anomic viewpoint - if such a thing can be said to exist. I don't think any philosophy or political theory could be taken seriously if its followers took no heed of responsibility or the effects of their actions.